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Isaiah

5 July 08

Isa 38:12 My generation is departed and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver; He will cut me off from the loom; from day even to night You will make an end of me.
Isa 38:13 I place Him before me until morning, that, as a lion, so He breaks all my bones; from day even until night You make an end of me.
Isa 38:14 Like a twittering swallow, so I chatter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look weakly to the heights. O Jehovah, I am pressed down; be surety for me.
Isa 38:15 What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has acted; I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
Isa 38:16 O Jehovah, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit; so You will recover me, and make me to live.
Isa 38:17 Behold, I had great bitterness for peace; but You loved my soul from the pit of destruction. You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
Isa 38:18 For the grave cannot praise You, death can not rejoice in You; they who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
Isa 38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise You, as I do this day; the father shall make Your truth known to the sons.
Isa 38:20 For Jehovah is for my salvation; and we will sing my songs on the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of Jehovah.
Isa 38:21 For Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs and rub it on the ulcer; and he will live.
Isa 38:22 And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?

Isa 39:1 At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.
Isa 39:2 And Hezekiah rejoiced over them, and let them see the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not let them see.
Isa 39:3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say? And where did they come from to you? And Hezekiah said, They have come from a far country to me, from Babylon.
Isa 39:4 Then he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house they have seen; there is nothing among my treasures that I have not let them see.
Isa 39:5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the Word of Jehovah of Hosts.
Isa 39:6 Behold, the days come when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says Jehovah.
Isa 39:7 And of your sons which shall issue from you, which you shall bring out, they shall take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
Isa 39:8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the Word of Jehovah which you have spoken. And he said, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

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4 July 08

Isa 37:24 By your servants you have mocked Jehovah and have said, by my many chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and its choice fir trees; and I will go to its greatest height, the forest of its Carmel.
Isa 37:25 I have dug and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.
Isa 37:26 Have you not heard from afar? I made it from days of old, even I have formed it. Now I have caused it to come, and you are to cause fortified cities to crash into heaps, ruins.
Isa 37:27 And their inhabitants were short of hand; dismayed and ashamed. They were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, even grain blasted before it has risen.
Isa 37:28 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against Me.
Isa 37:29 Because of your raging against Me, and your arrogance has come up into My ears, therefore I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way which you came.
Isa 37:30 And this shall be a sign to you: You shall eat self-sown grain this year; and the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year you shall sow, and reap, and plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
Isa 37:31 The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward;
Isa 37:32 for out of Jerusalem shall go out a remnant, and those who escape out of Mount Zion; the zeal of Jehovah of Hosts shall do this.
Isa 37:33 So Jehovah says this to the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
Isa 37:34 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and shall not come into this city, says Jehovah.
Isa 37:35 For I will defend this city to save it, for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.
Isa 37:36 Then the angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And they rose early in the morning, and behold! They were all dead corpses.
Isa 37:37 And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
Isa 37:38 And it happened as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword. And they escaped into the land of Ararat; and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his place.

Isa 38:1 In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, So says Jehovah, Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.
Isa 38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to Jehovah,
Isa 38:3 and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart, and have done the good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.
Isa 38:4 Then came the Word of Jehovah to Isaiah, saying,
Isa 38:5 Go and say to Hezekiah: So says Jehovah, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.
Isa 38:6 And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria. And I will defend this city.
Isa 38:7 And this shall be a sign to you from Jehovah that Jehovah will do this thing that He has spoken:
Isa 38:8 behold, I will bring again the shadow of the steps, which has gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten steps backward. So the sun returned ten steps, by which steps it had gone down.
Isa 38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
Isa 38:10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave; I have numbered the rest of my years.
Isa 38:11 I said, I shall not see Jah, Jehovah, in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more with the people of the world.

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3 July 08

Isa 37:1 And it happened when King Hezekiah heard, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Jehovah.
Isa 37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
Isa 37:3 And they said to him, So says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy! For the sons have come to the birth, and no strength to bring forth.
Isa 37:4 It may be Jehovah your God will hear the words of the chief of the cupbearers, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which Jehovah your God has heard. And you shall lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.
Isa 37:5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
Isa 37:6 And Isaiah said to them, So you shall say to your master, So says Jehovah, Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
Isa 37:7 Behold, I will send a blast on him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Isa 37:8 So the chief of the cupbearers returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah. For he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
Isa 37:9 And he heard concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He has come out to war with you. And he heard and sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
Isa 37:10 So you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Isa 37:11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by completely destroying them. And shall you be delivered?
Isa 37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed: Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?
Isa 37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
Isa 37:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the courier's hand, and read it. And Hezekiah went up into the house of Jehovah and spread it before Jehovah.
Isa 37:15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord, saying,
Isa 37:16 O Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, who dwells between the cherubs, You are He, God, You alone to all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.
Isa 37:17 Bow down Your ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open Your eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib which he has sent to mock the living God.
Isa 37:18 Truly, O Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their land,
Isa 37:19 and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; so they have destroyed them.
Isa 37:20 And now, O Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are Jehovah, You alone.
Isa 37:21 And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, So says Jehovah, the God of Israel, Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
Isa 37:22 this is the word which Jehovah has spoken concerning him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind you.
Isa 37:23 Whom have you mocked and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.

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